WEBVTT - The Self-Destructiveness of White Supremacy 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.920 Good morning, keeps, and welcome to WOKF Daily with Meet 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.520 your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.280 By the time that this recording hits Ron de Santis 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.279 will have announced that he is running for President of 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.640 the United States. Yes, death Santis, from the fascist state 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.000 of Florida, wants to turn the rest of America into 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.760 his cesspool. He wants to turn on private businesses, turn 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.280 on LGBTQ people, ban every single book in every library 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.279 across this country. He wants to ban migrant workers. He 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.559 wants to ban LGBTQ people from existing. He wants to 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.520 erase black history and black people in general from this 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.680 country and make things very, very comfortable for white America. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.480 That's the goal here, folks. And we've been talking about 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.160 this on WOKEF for quite some time that the Republican 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.800 Party uses Florida, uses Texas and Tennessee in these other 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.960 states as their peatrie dishes to workshop their most cruel 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.760 policies to see how it will play out on the 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.759 national stage. Now, everything is being banked on the fact 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:27.160 that Donald Trump, while he overwhelmingly would beat the crap 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.000 out of Ron DeSantis in the polls in a head 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:37.000 to head right now, well, Donald Trump has multiple indictments looming. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:42.839 Donald Trump could potentially have been indicted again by Georgia's 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.480 Fannie Willis by the end of the summer. Right she 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.880 gave us all the time frame between July and September. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.680 You have Jack Smith who is wrapping up his investigation 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.600 on the stolen documents, and we have Donald Trump, in 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.960 his own words saying that he stole the documents and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.320 what So you have those two major cases that are looming, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.000 on top of which you already have out of the 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:11.680 Manhattan DA thirty four indictments right on fraud. So Donald 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.000 Trump is not a sure thing. He's not a sure 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:18.200 thing to make it right to election day and not 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.480 also have to be appear in court that day. So 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.120 that's the reality. And so the Republican Party is now 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:30.440 backing up their spare right, which would be Rond de Santis. Now, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.040 Ron de Santis does not have the charisma, does not 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.320 have the support of the MAGA base, but he definitely 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.360 has the cruelty is the point down pat and he 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:45.080 definitely understands how politics works. So he is even more 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.559 dangerous than Donald Trump. We are not just up against 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.880 right Donald Trump or Rond de Santis, the people. We 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.440 are up against a white supremaist, Christian fundamentalist ideology that 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:03.120 seeks to erase and oppress everyone else who does not 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.840 implore their same beliefs or look the same, pray the same, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:12.440 love the same as they do. Right, We're in a 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.720 real fucking pickle. The other point is that, yes, we're 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.519 aware that Joe Biden is going to be the oldest 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.800 man running for reelection, and if he pulls out this reelection, 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.160 we'll be the oldest president to serve at this time. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.120 There is no backup plan, right, Joe Biden is it? 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.320 And if you're not going ten toes down for him, 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.160 then you're not going ten toes down for democracy period. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.400 So we're going to continue to cover this and follow this. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.880 But coming up next, I'm so excited to welcome back 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:50.040 to WOKF my co host of Democracy, ish wajahat Ali 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.560 and the author of Go Back to Your Country. We 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:58.640 get into a conversation about the NAACP's ban, about the 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.520 erasure of by people, about cruelty is the point and 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.760 where we think this country is headed. And as a bonus, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:12.200 my dear friends, A new democracy Ish episode drops two days, 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.280 so make sure that you check out democracy Ish wherever 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:23.120 you get your podcasts, folks. I am always very excited 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.440 when I get to bring on my co host, my 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.760 weekly co host of a Democracy Ish, Washa hot Al Lee, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.680 who is an author, a columnist, and all around badass 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.080 on Twitter. If you have not read his book go 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.680 back to where you come from and other helpful tips 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:45.719 you should. And if you're loving wokf daily on iHeart, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.960 you should absolutely check out democracy Ish, which drops new 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.960 episodes each and every Thursday with wajaht and I and 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:59.159 some really amazing, amazing guests that we get into conversation with. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:06.440 So wa, you know, first of all, I just America, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.200 you know, I'll just start there America and then slap 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.800 my head and we can just go from there. But 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:20.440 over the weekend, the NAACP issued a really intense warning 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:27.080 to black people in America and members of other marginalized 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:33.600 groups in saying that you should be wary of traveling 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:39.440 to the state of Florida, that Florida is essentially a 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:45.080 hate state, that it is a dangerous state for black people, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:52.320 for LGBTQ people, for women. It was lengthy. It was necessary, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.880 and it harkens back to essentially a time in this 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:05.360 country during Jim Crow segregation where black Americans had to 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.760 if they were traveling, they got something called a green 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.280 book jajah hot Ali. They got a green book at 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:17.800 different gas stations, in different places of respites in between 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.200 their travels from the North throughout the South that would 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.400 signal to them in providing great detail places that would 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.159 accept their money and their presence as black people, whether 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.159 it was at a restaurant or a gas station or 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:38.000 a hotel. And traveling was so precarious and could end 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:43.680 up resulting in a lynching, a rape, a robbery, a beating, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.760 all of these things that the Green Book was necessary. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.400 Created by Victor Green, a postal worker who created this 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:59.040 and printed it himself and was disseminated throughout the South. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.000 And so here we are was fast forward to twenty 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:08.680 twenty three, where the nacious, longest and oldest civil rights 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:13.239 organization has made this stark warning. How did that land 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:13.680 with you? 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.240 I thought the Green Book was a movie where Vigo 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.480 Mortensen was taught by Mahershala Ali how to write letters 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.920 to his wife, and then they and then they had 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.320 been ali Weather. Oh yeah, my bad. Sorry. Look, I 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.200 think the NAACP should be joined by the National Organization 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.120 of Women, who should give an advisory to women who 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.280 want to go to Florida because Ron DeSantis, the wet 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.280 noodle that we have always said that he is on 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:44.239 our other podcast, has now restricted abortions after six weeks. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.640 I think GLAD or any organization that represents LGBTQ plus 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.720 communities should also issue an advisory because don't say gay. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.920 I think educators and librarians should also issue an advisory 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.560 because they're banning books, they're banning ap African American studies, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:05.480 they're silencing academics, and they're threatening librarians. And I also 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:11.480 think any group that tries to protect immigrants, especially on 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:16.400 document immigants, should also issue advisory warning because with the 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.280 new anti immigration bill, which none enough people are talking 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.640 about that he passed, basically they could just stop anyone 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.800 who looks mexicany ask them for their papers, and out 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.480 of state driver's licenses apparently aren't enough. So it has 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.480 led to Danielle as of last week and something that 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:38.360 people should mention. Massive stoppages in construction in Florida. Why 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.160 because just like in the African American community, in the 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.080 immigrant community and migrant community, especially the Latino communities weren't 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.959 spread and people are like, yo, unless you want to 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.200 get detained and deported, don't go to Florida. So I 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:57.640 would say, Danielle, if you go anti woke, you'll go broke. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.839 And another thing I'll say is good on the NAACP. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.040 And we were talking about this earlier. A tweet came 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.920 out from a friend of ours, historian Kevin Cruse of Princeton, 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.960 who's excellent on Twitter, follow him if you don't. And 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.400 Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz, who cares so much about 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.080 his constituents that whenever there's trouble he goes to can Kuhn. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.640 You know, he's now leading the charge with all these 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:25.800 other Republicans. How dare you, nubacap, how dare you? And 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:31.000 he invokes doctor King. Doctor King would be so embarrassed. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.200 And then Kevin crew says, ah, as a historian, I 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:38.640 have receipts. Actually Doctor King back in the day called 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.760 for a boycott of this state called Alabama, precisely because 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.760 as you described, Danielle, it was a haven for white violence, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:53.920 white vigilante violence against black people and those whites who 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.040 helped black people. Yeah, that's what I think. 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.920 So yeah, so Kevin Cruz and and folks, it is 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.720 Kevin and Cruz k r U s E. He tweeted 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:10.000 this in response to Ted Cruz, who said, quote this 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.120 is bizarre and utterly dishonest. In the nineteen fifties and sixties, 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:19.600 the NAACP did extraordinary good thing, good good helping lead 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.080 the civil rights movement. Today, doctor Kin would be ashamed 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.960 of how profoundly they've lost their way, so quote tweeting 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:32.720 that Professor Kevin Cruz tweets this. In nineteen sixty five, 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.240 doctor King called for a national boycott of the state 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.719 of Alabama, saying that the Democratic governor George Wallace's policies 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:46.600 constituted a quote reign of terror against black Americans. And so, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:53.000 just so folks don't get it twisted, Ted Cruz knows nothing, 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.920 and I know that it is. It is very hard 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:01.360 to dig into the bin of idiocy and lack of intellectual, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.559 nimbleness and honesty when we're talking about the Republican Party 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.439 writ large, but in particular Ted Cruz, much alike Republicans 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:13.080 love to do coming around the Martin Luther King Junior Holiday, 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.120 which is to take out the one quote that they 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:21.040 know out of its context. Come on, Daniel, be fair 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:26.480 three quotes, you're right, You're right, and admonish black people 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.800 for acknowledging the racist policies that they put together, because 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.719 us acknowledging racism is what is racist, not the policies 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.200 in and of itself. So Professor Cruse said, let me 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.080 provide you with the actual receipts of the New York 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.360 Times article that was written in nineteen sixty five. And 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.560 so I think what gets me here is that facts 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.640 don't register with the Party of Lies and the Party 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:58.360 of hate. But what should register with Americans and the 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:06.480 populace is that this party hasn't just regressed, it has devolved, right, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.520 It has devolved into something where we thought that the 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.880 commentary that we understood around the civil rights movement we 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.600 would always look at through a historical lens. But here 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.760 we are, in present day twenty twenty three America, following 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:27.120 the successful two terms of our nation's first black president. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:33.640 We currently have our first black and an AAPI vice 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.840 president woman of the United States. That we are still 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.760 in the midst of experiencing some extraordinary first but here 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:46.120 we are with the nation's oldest civil rights organization having 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:51.720 to issue travel warnings to black people in America. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.640 And you know, Daniel, I'm going to google this because 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.720 I wanted to get the quote right. You know, we 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.199 mentioned George Wallason. For those people who forget George Wallace 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.360 ran for president. He was also elected as governor of 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.400 Alabama in nineteen sixty three. This is what George Wallace said, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.000 in the name of the greatest people that have ever 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.680 trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.160 and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:25.400 I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. And what 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.280 I said during the tyranny of Donald Trump's four years 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.920 in the White House is that he has a lot 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.640 in common George Wallace. He's a demagogue. In fact, people 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:40.000 support George Wallace should support Donald Trump. So you say devolved, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.640 I say, they're returning back to their roots. This is 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.280 who they were, And people say, oh, well, joh, that's 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.360 too harsh. I want to remind you all that Donald 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:56.199 Trump said, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Another 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.000 famous pro segregation dog whistle in those parts right from 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.880 the sixties. So these folks Ted Cruz and the modern 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.880 Republican Party literally, I mean, do we really think if 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.240 they took a Dolorean back to the sixties, would they 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.600 be on the side of Doctor King or would they 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.319 be on the side of George Wallace. And I'll give 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:21.520 you this, don't say gay banning, any treatment of transgender kids, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.400 banning books written by Tony Morrison, going after Colin Kaepernick 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.600 for bending a knee, but supporting white supremacist and Christian 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:34.160 nationalists who tried to literally overthrow our election right, calling 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.680 Donald Trump, calling the black officer who defended these Republican 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:43.160 congressmen a thug, but praising Ashley Babbitt, who was radicalized 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:48.120 by QAnon, Praising people like Kyle Rittenhouse who shan and 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.200 killed two white folks at a BLM protest, praising and 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.360 the guy, the white guy who got convicted by a 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.160 jury of his peers in Texas for shooting another protester 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.200 at a b protest. Tucker Carlson said, parton them, and 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.280 Greg Abbat said, sure, I'll part on this white killer 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:10.240 who was convicted by a jury of his peers. Literally lynching. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:14.640 I'm at Arbury for jogging while black in his neighborhood. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.920 And if it wasn't for the video that was released, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.239 they would not be in prison. So you tell me, Danielle. 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.600 Would these people, these modern Republicans, be on the side 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.640 of doctor King because they only know three of his 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.440 quotes and forget everything else, especially the condemnation of corrupt 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.320 capitalism and white supremacy? Or would they be on the 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.600 side of George Wallace? And I would tell you they'd 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.400 be on the side of George Wallace. So NAACP is 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.120 finally flexing and the way you go after these folks. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.840 And this is why I've always said that white supremacy 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.040 is ultimately self destructive. Because Ron DeSantis, in order to 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.040 feed the magabase that has been radicalized and weaponized, has 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.720 to go after Disney. He can't double down, he can't retreat, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.800 even though you and I know on the d all 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.760 the Republicans like whoahoa, whoa Easier, They're Ronda Santiss. You 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.960 can't bite the hand that feeds you. Now they've gone 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.640 all in to feed this radicalized base that wants to 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.760 stand its ground. That Florida is I'm sorry to say, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.520 getting some karma. Disney flex last week, right, they're actually 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.280 just a couple of days ago Disney said, all right, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:17.840 that huge billion. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:18.920 Dollar complex pulling it. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:23.480 Peace out. NAACP said, oh, Disney's gonna peace out. We're 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.440 gonna peace out. Educators are gonna peace out. I think 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.840 what about college athletes, Black athletes? Will they go to 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.560 university Florida schools for football? You tell me, I'm gonna 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.680 say no. So this is one of those situations where 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.680 you need this multicultural coalition. And when I see the NAACP, 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.040 I was serious. I want now the National Organization of Women, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.720 I want Glad. I want all these groups now to say, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.240 all right, Florida, you want to go anti woke, you're 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.400 gonna go bro. That's my take on this. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:57.360 And I wholeheartedly agree, because here's the thing you have 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.960 to go after, right. I think that it's be colleges, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:07.640 big sports entities, ticket Master, Live Nation, all of these 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.280 places that do business, that do multi million dollar or a 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.359 billion dollar business like Disney and say so we're done. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.480 And there are people wash who come out and say, well, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.440 you know, you can't harm the people that live there 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.280 that are trying to do the best that they can. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.919 And I said, well, you know, money talks and bullshit walks. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.280 So if at the end of the day, we are 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:34.199 still operating under this capitalist regime, right, and you have 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.600 the power to sway you know, the ticket masters of 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.159 the world and the big names from going and performing 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.040 in places like Florida, if you have the ability to say, 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:52.040 you know what, NBA, nc DOUBLEA, NFL and others that 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.320 we're not going to support you if you are playing 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.200 games and giving money to this state. Because it isn't 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.040 just construct that is now faltering in Florida, it is 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:08.639 also guess what agriculture is faltering in Florida, right, because 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.960 they literally have fruits and vegetables dying on the vines. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:20.840 Because our agriculture market requires right migrant workers. Yep, whether 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.520 or not we want to pay them, acknowledge them, provide 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.920 them with dignity and respect. This is how things work. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:32.080 So you know, when I see the NAACP and equality Florida, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.600 and I think there is one other organization that I 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:39.200 am remiss at remembering right now who has issued warnings 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.639 with regard to Florida. I believe that everyone else, the 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:48.360 Human Rights Campaign glad ACLU others Southern popular law. Everybody 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.080 should fall in line. 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.120 I forgot Pan America joined up with Penguin Random House, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:58.760 one of the Titan publishing corporations, to sue Florida. That 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.280 happened last week also and the last quick thing before 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.440 were It also goes to show you, in this capitalist 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:09.120 country where all that matters is money, the color green 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.360 trumps all of the colors in God, we trust, it's 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.920 right there. It also goes to show you, Danielle, if 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:20.320 these corporations actually cared about freedom, democracy and human rights overnight, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.239 there would be changes in this country. Disney Disney's kind 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:26.760 of like the unexpected hero because they pushed Disney to 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:29.159 the point where they finally had to step up. Disney 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.760 could have done this on its own right. So it 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.240 just goes to show you how much power these organizations 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.320 have that if you go after their bottom line, they're 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.800 going to go after the Republicans that they also feed. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.120 But it also goes to show you that if they 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.919 actually cared overnight, they can rain in the Republicans and 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.160 the majority can stop, you know, being hijacked by a minority. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.000 That's the sad part. This could happen overnight. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.160 You know, speaking of things that happened overnight. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.280 Well, good, well done, excellent segue. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.199 With a few minutes that we have left the lone 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:07.239 black Republican Senator Tim Scott has you know, said, you know, 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:11.080 he's he's running for president, and you know he's doing so. 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.680 Wa was by stating that America is not a racist country. 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.760 Now we've just spent the last sixteen minutes talking about 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:23.240 all the ways in which America is absolutely and totally racist, 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.480 right from hearkening back to George Wallace, to today's policies 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.160 that are happening, to the NAACP's announcement. But in Tim 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.080 Scott's America and the reality that he lives in, in 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:40.560 his hehaw America, he believes that anybody who tells you 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.200 that America is racist, they are lying to you. That's 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:47.159 what he said in his announcement speech. And you know, 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.159 Tim Scott has been the literal blackface that the Republican 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.240 Party has trotted out to deal to come up with 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:01.880 compromise legislation that fell apart after the murder of George Floyd. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.920 He was supposed to be working with his counterpart, Senator 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.120 Corey Booker to create legislation that would, I don't know, 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.119 stop cops from being able to kill unarmed black people 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:19.520 and use police brutality and wield unimaginable force. And that 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.920 all fell apart after about eight months, and they have 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.560 yet to come back to the table again on those issues. 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.880 But anytime there is an issue with regard to race 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.280 or racism, it is Tim Scott that the Republican parties 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:36.119 pushed to the front, and he is saying that he 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.160 wants us to get back to a place of unity 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.040 right where we can have differences with one another, but 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.520 that we are all part of the same American team. 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.760 He harkened back to Reagan that America is this beacon 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.240 on the hill. He pulled out every single trope, every 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:55.560 single Republican talking point. But the differentiator here is that 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.080 he is not referring to his Democratic opponents as his enemies. 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.239 He is not calling for them to be round up 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.280 and hunted like dogs, like Governor McMaster just said at 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:10.119 a South Carolina Republican convention meeting. 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.680 Wow that one wow yeah, yeah. 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:15.240 Yeah, rounded up and hunted like dogs. That he wants 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.080 them Democrats to be so rare that that is the case, 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.480 and Democrats in South Carolina are calling on him for 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:26.440 an apology. I better they wait for hell to freeze over. 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:31.160 What do you make of Tim Scott his announcement and 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.399 how he is positioning himself right now with another black 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:41.080 quote unquote rising star Byron Donalds, who is an election denier. 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:43.520 Who's the other black face that Republicans are loving to 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:44.000 trot out. 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:50.560 Every community has a token, a cultural validator, a black 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.199 or brown face that acts as a trojan horse for 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:57.920 white supremacy. One who believes that they are either special 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:01.560 and exalted and different from a svages, the Clarence Thomas ones, 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:04.760 the ones who hate themselves, or the ones who realize 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.440 this is a good gig because the money is lucrative, 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.240 and I can parrot all their talking points, and I'll 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.560 be the token black. I'll be the Candice Owens. I'll 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:16.600 be the Nikki Haley, the vivid Ramaswami. Right. And the 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:20.080 interesting thing is they engage in all these petzel circusile 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:23.840 rational you know, gymnastics in their head. Nicky Haley said 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:25.640 the same thing when she ran for when she announce 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.399 her candidacy, and literally right when she did, and Colter 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.200 told her to go back to her own country. People 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.640 always forget this, right. Literally, Donald Trump said she has 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.960 the wrong complexion to be my running mate. Right, So 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.240 they're being racist to their face and they sit there 0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:43.879 and they eat their shit sandwich, because that's the fausting bargain. 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.280 Tim Scott knows what's up, but he's made this fasting bargain. 0:23:47.320 --> 0:23:49.520 He's never going to be president. He effed up. Literally, 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:52.040 he took the mic and did a Howard Dean moment 0:23:52.400 --> 0:23:54.920 and effed up even making his announcement. So it's over. 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:57.320 He's he's gonna be a punch line. But what he'll 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:00.560 get is a lifelong tenure in the Republican Party as 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.960 the token black. He'll get a six or seven figure 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:07.520 book deal, he'll get a consulting gig, and he'll allow 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.399 Republicans to get away with the fiction that they're not 0:24:10.560 --> 0:24:13.960 racist because look, we support the black yep. 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.280 I mean, it's just you know, it is. It is 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:20.720 a gig as old as time, right, It is a 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:23.440 gig as old as time to be And I love 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:27.280 your phrasing the to be the embodiment of the trojan 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:30.800 horse for white supremacy. It is it can't possibly exist 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:35.040 because I exist, right, And the reality is tip Scott. 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:41.880 You know his grandfather, I believe you know, pick cotton, right, 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:49.360 lived in the lived under the weight of segregation. And 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:51.840 so Tip Scott has a lot to be proud of. 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:53.760 His family has a lot to be proud of. 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:54.080 Right. 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:58.159 You go from in two generations from picking cotton to 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:02.159 picking policy, and that is that has always been you know, 0:25:02.320 --> 0:25:06.560 his line of thinking. But there's something that got contorted 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:11.040 and twisted in his mind about because he had said 0:25:11.480 --> 0:25:15.720 ability and advantages. That then every black person in this 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:19.280 country has had the same ability and advantages and everything 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:22.159 else that we see is just a product of our imagination. 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.520 And if we just ignore it, if we just align 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:28.879 with our oppressor and be grateful to share stages with 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:32.359 them and share microphones with them, then all will be well. 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:34.520 Pull your pull yourself up from. 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:39.760 Yes, right, and don't let your don't let your complexion 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:44.240 be what causes you to not be able to succeed. 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:48.080 That's just an excuse, right. So it is it is 0:25:48.160 --> 0:25:51.639 such an incredible place where you named, you name checked 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:55.679 all of these black and brown faces that the Republican 0:25:55.760 --> 0:26:01.280 Party is pushing forward to cloak their white supremacy. Right, 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:05.400 And I just wonder do you think last question for you, 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:09.520 how do we we think this is gonna fare in 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:13.960